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A genuine question, what are the use cases for Tesla's Optimus robots? Are they consumer products that help with household chores, industrial robots for warehou
by sebastian_z 8mo ago
A genuine question, what are the use cases for Tesla's Optimus robots? Are they consumer products that help with household chores, industrial robots for warehouses or manufacturing, a play toy, something else?
- palmotea 8mo ago> A genuine question, what are the use cases for Tesla's Optimus robots? Are they consumer products that help with household chores, industrial robots for warehouses or manufacturing, a play toy, something else? Convincing investors to buy and hold Tesla, because of the vague promise of some great technological innovation being just around the corner. Electric cars and partially automated driving don't serve that purpose anymore.
- ozten 8mo agoThey are one of several memetic devices which keep Tesla’s stock price in orbit, untethered from reality.
- testing22321 8mo agoIf they actually work (and I’m not saying for one second they will), they’re intended to be all those. I have no doubt there will be many tens of millions of them, it’s just a question of when. 5 years? 10? 50?
- WarmWash 8mo ago>A genuine question, what are the use cases for Tesla's Optimus robots? A longer horizon promise of multi-trillion dollar wealth generation for Tesla. As the whole robotaxi thing is starting to fizzle, Elon has quite notably talked more and more about how actually Optimus is the true gem of Tesla.
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- blinding-streak 8mo agoThey are a financial engineering product with limited real world utility, in an attempt to keep the company solvent.
- root_axis 8mo agoIf a use case emerges it will have to be industrial or commercial. The power and maintenance constraints for a robot like that make it pretty impractical for home use.